After her public spat with The Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens joined Tucker Carlson for the latest installment of his digital video series on X.
Carlson asked Owens about the situation, noting that he didn’t fully understand the context surrounding the criticism Shapiro levied on his colleague.
“I haven’t seen it, but to call somebody ‘absolutely disgraceful’, particularly a co-worker, seems like a pretty big step,” Carlson said. “What — and I really don’t know the background here — what is that about?”
“There isn’t much of a background. I saw the video when everybody else saw it, when I woke up,” Owens revealed. “Nobody warned me about it. It looks like maybe he didn’t know he was being recorded. It was some sort of a private event. I got no clarity on the issue that he was particularly speaking on and in what was said. I can’t respond to it beyond what he’s saying because it’s just ad hominem attacks.”
“I can’t respond to it on a level of intellect because there’s nothing that he has expressed in that — at least in that short clip — that he fundamentally disagrees with in terms of what I said,” Owens continued. “But I will say that I’m not going to respond with the same ad hominem attacks. I don’t think it helps further discussion. And if that was me that was caught on a video saying that about colleagues that I work with, I would be embarrassed. I think that the video speaks more to Ben’s character than it speaks to mine.”
Carlson then asked Candace Owens if Shapiro had contacted her to discuss the situation or apologize. She said it’s been radio silence.
“No. Nothing. I haven’t heard a single word. It just was sort of something that he said. And you know what? Ben and I have many disagreements. So I don’t think that that’s particularly something that’s interesting…So that’s totally fine. I am totally open to people having a difference in opinion. I would hope that amongst colleagues that it would always be civil disagreement, and I would never in a private event stand on a table and talk badly about Ben.”
